SpaceX Completes First-ever Rocket Landing Following Launch. For The First Time In History, An Orbital

found this on reddit and laughed so hard I sorted myself into the whomping willow.

Via WW

Today Department of Awesome Natural Wonders is mesmerized by this awesome footage of hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerging en masse from their cave at dusk and flying off into the sky to forage for food:

Produced by Spine Films, this stunning video was created by scientists using high-speed video cameras. Click here to learn more.

[via bioGraphic]

So according to an interview with Neil Gaiman in the back of Good Omens, before Terry Pratchett became a full time writer he wrote at least 400 words a day.

I’ve been trying it out for a couple weeks now and let me tell you 400 words is a totally awesome goal. It is very approachable and not intimidating, often leads to more than 400 words cause well now I have to finish this scene. 

Seriously I probably would have written nothing in the last couple weeks, instead I’ve written 1000′s of words. 

10/10 would recommend.

Does anyone have any orange slices?

Fyi: that called the socratic method

I wish every white person at one of these protests would commit to doing one-on-one relational work with other whites to deal with their racism

Junior to senior, illustrated

by uaiHebert

Repellent

Watch: Black family stands up to racist couple at San Antonio restaurant

Sometimes you don’t know how to feel about your doggleganger.

Source: Awwww Pets

JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

by keiran_s

@disgustingly-aesthetic hahaha! Totally YOU!